I Name Me Name
Subtitle: Lola
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781845230449
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Caribbean Poetry In English; Poetry; English; Caribbean islands; Caribbean & Latin American; Poetry / Caribbean & Latin American
Description: "Opal Palmer Adisa employs autobiographical prose, dramatic monologue, lyric poem, praise song, blues and prophetic rant to enact the construction of an identity. At its centre is a Rastafarian sense of 'i-ness', but its outer dimensions fully encompass an African Jamaican/American woman's radical consciousness of gender, race, geography, the spiritual and the sensual, the social, political and the historical as the co-ordinates of a dynamic space for dialogue and connection." "Above all, I Name Me Name shares with us the making of a writing persona, the interface between personal and social space, the imagination, and the characters who come unbidden to demand that their stories be told."--book jacket.